Capt_Fantastic
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Originally posted by botankus
I'm sorry but if it's dark I'm not walking down a two-lane highway with drunk rednecks ready to mow me over and high-tail it because they're afraid of going to jail if they get caught with a hit-and-run.When people mow people over with cars and drive off, people ask, "how can you just leave that person there all bleeding on the side of the road?" The answer is..."you go to jail, *****, if you turn yourself in, so it's best to speed off into the sunset and hope a part of your bumper didn't fall off when you ran them over."
A story for you. A few years ago I was driving down 52 on my way to work in Greensboro. It was just getting light and I noticed a lot of the cars slowing down in front of me. Not to teh point of creeping, but their brake lights were flashing on and off. As I approached the area where they were hitting their brakes, I ran over this huge lump of flesh. I assumed it was a deer and kept right on going. that night, I found out it was a woman who'd been walking down teh highway and been struck by a girl driving home early that morning. She'd stopped because she knew she'd hit something but hadn't seen what it was. When she got out of her car and tried to find whatever it was, she found a dead deer on teh side of the road. Thinking that was what she'd hit, she got back in her car and left. The news said they assumed that the woman had been hit almost immeadiately afterwards by a tractor trailer. This apparently resulted in her being paractically vaporized and left unrecognizable. So the poor woman laid there for several hours, being run over again and again. By the time I came along at around 7:30, she was pretty well tenderized and flattened.
i cut the article out of the newspaper the next day, I wonder what I did with it.